Plant Breeding: Classical to Modern
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: Generalia
- 1. Introduction plant breeding
- 2. Objectives,activities and centres of origin
- 3. Germplasm conservation
- Part II: Development aspects
- 4. Modes of reproduction and apomixis
- 5. Self-incompatibility
- 6. Male sterility-- 7. Basic statistics
- Part III: Methods of breeding
- 8. Selection
- 9. Hybridization
- 10. Backcross breeding
- 11. Breeding self-pollinated crops 12. Breeding cross-pollinated crops
- 13. Recombinant imbred lines
- 14. Quantitative genetics
- Part IV: Specialized breeding
- 15. Hetorisis
- 16. Induced mutations and polyploidy breeding
- 17. Distant hybridization
- 18. Host plant resistant breeding
- 19. Breeding for abiotic stress adaptation
- 20. Genotype-by-environment interactions
- Part V: Breeding for new millenium
- 21. Tissue culture
- 22. Genetic engineering
- 23. Molecular breeding
- 24. Genomics
- 25. Maintenance breeding and variety release